General retail work at a mission focused non-profit thrift shop. Responsibilities include pricing donated items, managing inventory, stocking the sales floor, customer assistance, and odd tasks for the store like craftwork and technical support.

Self-employed as a private tutor teaching tech skills with a focus on Python and Javascript. I use a collaborative, project-oriented approach informed by a student's individual goals and learning style. Student outcomes include building a site that currently supports a small business and successfully finding a job which was both higher paid and better fit for their personal values.

- Worked on team managing place and location API driving applications across the Roadpass suite of properties- Maintained internal application for managing place and location data- Self-managed project implementing data syncing between separate web applications- Upgraded core infrastructure like Webpack and Elasticsearch, including necessary refactoring

- Customers include Fortune 500 and Top 10 insurers- Wrote and maintained multiple Rails/React applications- Designed and implemented call center integration with Amazon Connect- Built integrations with multiple (legacy) third-party systems- Managed devops for deploying AWS Lambda functions using the Serverless Framework- Founding member of social committee responsible for organizing social groups and events

- First engineering hire, covering product and dev roles- Modernized workflow, including automated test infrastructure and dependency management- Built event ticketing platform for online and in person auctions- Automated payout systems to non-profits, including paper checks sent via snail mail- Created referral program and required systems- Improved usability of administrative tools for both internal admins and customers- Directly interacted with our users to resolve issues and take feedback on our product- All the other miscellaneous tasks that come with being at a small startup

- Worked with small internal team to create and port administrative tools for the Tagged.com product.- Our team greatly increased the stability of our tools, to the point of having better reliability than the site itself while running on the same infrastructure.User Abuse Review- Assisted in porting legacy system from Java to the company's more standard PHP stack.- Modified UI to increase agent's performance about 40% via A/B tests and user studies- Rewrote queueing backend for simplicity and reliability (ironically in PHP from Java).Spam Model Validation- Assisted in creating tools to validate and test spam models- Allowed faster iteration of spam prevention w/o needing to modify our production environment (and thus negatively impact users with a bad algorithm)CHM (Content Harmful to Minors) Tools- Find and report CHM images (child pornography) and actions (predatory messages)- Integrated w/ third party service for law enforcement- Correctness of reporting and data necessary to prevent wrongful arrestUser Photo Review- Processes on average 1.2 million photos/day, peak over 3 million.- Includes tools to manage photo access and metadata- Allows for administrative overrides to view "deleted"​ photosRESTful API framework- Created light Object Oriented framework for PHP (ala Rails Routing)- Heavily schema driven (via JSON schemas)- Allows rapid iteration of API's and versioning- HTTP compliant responses- Basic token authenticationIntroduced new technology such as RabbitMQ/Celery to replace unreliable homebrew solutions and Composer, the defacto dependency manager for php. This allowed the entire company to replace existing parts of code with open source solutions.Designed team's release process to greatly increase the reliability and speed of our releases. Reduced rollbacks to near zero.

Simplified and automated employee onboarding process.Contributed to rolling out new site features, like a page for sharing stories.Full stack work with Rails, MySql, JavaScript, CSS, RSpec.Created emails showing users' friends impact on Causes.Worked on internal email management tool.High velocity work across multiple teams.

Collaborating on a biological virtual reality application with multiple disciplines. Managebalance between efficiency and realism, and implement biologically accurate systems.Also developed critical game engine components for the original version of the project.Selected responsibilities include... · Optimizing and simplifying Lua binding for C++, linking scriped events together on the fly. Resulted in greatly increasing development speed and shaved ~30% off time wasted in binding calls. · Wrote user interaction library, using a statically typed JavaScript dialect. Wrapped common UI tasks like drag and drop, windowing, and control of the player character.

General support for test engineering group, server setup/maintenance. Designed andimplemented enterprise software using Java Servlets, MySQL, HTML and AJAX as a webapplication for mobile and browser.

Developed embedded software for monitoring and control panels in RV's and Motor Homesto client requirements. All projects in C and use ST7/8 microcontroller. Software used ADC,UART, and proprietary protocols to interface with peripheral devices.Selected projects include... · Multi Switch Panel, which controlled the extending and retracting of RV slide outs and awning. Wrote interface code for user interaction and factory test/setup and drivers for UART and LCD display. · One Place Monitor Panel, which presented information about RV resources on 4x24 LCD display. Used a multiplexed ADC input to read sensors to report water, LP gas, and battery levels. Direct line to relay to start and stop a generator. · Remote Panel, which mirrored the output of the One Place panel. Users could step through various resources on the remote panel, which would display the values from the master panel. Communication was done with a direct line for button input and UART for master-to-slave communication.

Designed and developed website for CSRL (http://www.srl.ag.iastate.edu/).